Visiting imaginary places

Our apartment, by Topsy Design, another contemporary exponent of ‘living over the shop‘, or rather, ‘living within the shop.’ Whereas traders once used to shoehorn their living quarters above their working quarters, the evaporation of production and the growth in very specialist retail means that LOTS has evaporated. Instead, LWTS will become more and more commonplace thanks to the combination of curated personal spaces and increased pressure on urban housing.

Many thanks to Architectural Review for the mention, and for pointing us towards The Day After You Die and Japanese Scientists, two image-heavy sites, doing what tumblrs and their ilk do best; present the visual highlights from what appears to be a life of constant hedonism and aesthetic perfection / designboom’s Venice Architecture Biennale coverage is amongst the most comprehensive there is. Given the cornucopia of quite literally instant online coverage, whereby the key events of each day are tweeted, streamed and blogged as they happen, one starts to question the wisdom of attending the Biennale at all.